Reihan, Shaked, Sun 13.6.10, Morning
Translation: Bracha B.A.
6:00-7:35
"They want us to forget about our land. That's their politics."
06:00 Reihan Barta'a Checkpoint
Workers are sitting on the ground and on the curbs by the side of the road waiting for rides. The seamstresses, who are unusually well-dressed and looking fashionable, are coming out of the sleeve. Tenders are unloading their cargo in the vehicle inspection facility. As has been the case recently, there is no congestion or waiting.
Our acquaintance, A, invites us to his son's wedding on July 12th. The above quote was spoken by a MK from Tura who speaks fluent Hebrew.
He stresses again and again that his family owns over 200 dunams (50 acres) of orchards and that the weeds need to be hoed during the summer season in order to prevent brush fires. H explains that his elderly father who can no longer work but in whose name the land is registered, is the only one who has received an agricultural permit. He has appealed to the Israeli and Palestinian authorities as well as the Liaison and Coordination Administration but to no avail. He now goes to work in Shaked and sounds extremely fed up and desperate.
07:05 – Shaked Tura Checkpoint
The gate close to us is open and the inner gate is still closed. At 07:07 about 20 people approach the turnstile. A herd of goats is waiting patiently. At 07:12 the first woman comes out towards the lone house. The first person comes through at 07:16. It is very late. The first car comes through at 07:18. A soldier tells us that we cannot stand in the field in back of the barbed wire because it is a closed military area. Does this mean that the litter on both sides of the fence is also in a closed military area? No, she answers, the dirt and litter is theirs. When we ask why the checkpoint began operating so late she replied that they had a problem, but refused to give any details. The driver of the blue transit says that they have stopped harassing him when he goes to the seamline zone. The herd of goats goes through at 07:25. At 07:35 there are about 15 people next to the turnstile. The passage to the seamline zone continues slowly. We hurry to get to Jalameh to pick up Aya and her mother. We are also taking a Palestinian doctor who is doing his specialization at Rambam Hospital through the Peres Center for Peace who works during the week and goes home for weekends.
Barta’a-Reihan Checkpoint
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This checkpoint is located on the Separation Fence route, east of the Palestinian town of East Barta’a. The latter is the largest Palestinian community inside the seam-line zone (Barta’a Enclave) in the northern West Bank. Western Barta’a, inside Israel, is adjacent to it. The Checkpoint is open all week from 5 a.m. to 9 p.m. Since mid-May 2007, the checkpoint has been managed by a civilian security company subordinate to the Ministry of Defense. People permitted to cross through this checkpoint into and from the West Bank are residents of Palestinian communities inside the Barta’a Enclave as well as West Bank Palestinian residents holding transit permit. Jewish settlers from Hermesh and Mevo Dotan cross here without inspection. A large, modern terminal is active here with 8 windows for document inspection and biometric tests (eyes and fingerprints). Usually only one or two of the 8 windows are in operation. Goods, up to medium commercial size, may pass here from the West Bank into the Barta’a Enclave. A permanent registered group of drives who have been approved by the may pass with farm produce. When the administration of the checkpoint was turned over to a civilian security firm, the Ya’abad-Mevo Dotan Junction became a permanent checkpoint. . It is manned by soldiers who sit in the watchtower and come down at random to inspect vehicles and passengers (February 2020).
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Tura-Shaked
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Tura-Shaked
This is a fabric of life* checkpoint through which pedestrians, cabs and private cars (since 2008) pass to and from the West Bank and the Seam-line Zone to and from the industrical zone near the settler-colony Shaked, schools and kindergartens, and Jenin university campuses. The checkpoint is located between Tura village inside the West Bank and the village of Dahar Al Malah inside the enclave of the Seam-line Zone. It is opened twice a day, between 7 a.m. and 10 a.m., and from 12 noon to 7 p.m. People crossing it (at times even kindergarten children) are inspected in a bungalow with a magnometer. Names of those allowed to cross it appear in a list held by the soldiers. Usually traffic here is scant.
- fabric of life roads and checkpoints, as defined by the Terminals Authority in the Ministry of Defense (fabric of life is a laundered name that does not actually describe any kind of humanitarian purpose) are intended for Palestinians only. These roads and checkpoints have been built on lands appropriated from their Palestinian owners, including tunnels, bypass roads, and tracks passing under bridges. Thus traffic can flow between the West Bank and its separated parts that are not in any kind of territorial contiguity with it. Mostly there are no permanent checkpoint on these roads but rather ‘flying’ checkpoints, check-posts or surprise barriers. At Toura, a small (less than one dunam) and sleepy checkpoint has been established, which has filled up with the years with nearly .every means of supervision and surveillance that the Israeli military occupation has produced. (February 2020)
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